From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3980CC433F5 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234617AbhK2WwE (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:52:04 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36272 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235205AbhK2Wui (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:50:38 -0500 Received: from mail-ed1-x52b.google.com (mail-ed1-x52b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::52b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A5DCC125CFD; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:28:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ed1-x52b.google.com with SMTP id e3so75887146edu.4; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:28:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=sender:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MB3GFFeOjtyBnMUEQAUlH0fE3HvRWrSglqVldeRNkTI=; b=NF66YJGu+z/q6t7oa19NAuq1tMHmcimI4KQHfoHawnz7oMeBmi2xajBtfAWXSd8k/0 Y6BpBdbWc5Jv1jb+O9uiIEmkE42VYUJh4CB47+XcmyOpgoAVku4YvxVxt2hPeam/H7Pc +GTW7uuRFtNtFy3Xt+1l9/q2ytjf88eYEaTwEfPwIlQmcb5TadAxMSadsB6pni4Osbco ee5GYmpk77zhPqWHFJ09p3isaZ1fpCo7QsxAhTWcGRKD/4Rk44BVfU29qYXoMfgm3wOe kylDPEoXdokdXSi39AY80LEKpW7pZIUZCh1FwgmngPaxqpkKEDnRpSq4iSNmv9Ei5lpv cWpQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent :subject:content-language:to:cc:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MB3GFFeOjtyBnMUEQAUlH0fE3HvRWrSglqVldeRNkTI=; b=rLvkqoOiU1cIiQ8+eA9efR7p1KWCySV5a6W1yQT/yWzfK71xpindwp3mNEsnsn7GPK X5nv6nROaa0KagUw4sOxDJr0hZvaJpGAX6I3Ky+VvPtIoe9NKfnbEgSEU1aSijCW1yx4 Hg8bOW90Y6QAqA6xvWJpZhcxwfA9U3RDx3CaaceWluE0ecyhbe9BcA0hcC2qIjcSv9hy kq6AClyc9aqmvID8rp0K2WCzffBYUtmB/GEx/8jkVcbpkrJnxYDgzo4Ads+d4pCHGGIh IkQqbGpqDSVd+ZLJ4pvuk6uPlrnDRsObITizZm0HNZcTYf03pGDF8FkBUV5iBsFpwsU/ K8TA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532FQ4qgqxfHd5Uy1eZBnQhfc3JbEvaLaz7hwFocezFjp/FTJmha AUwiFetozz+x6jSbTwKsXWY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxUspOAr8cup2peU+OssossYU8fTUj+vYaMlORw+5h6Q/4s74Vn3mi5m9YJQwKF7ZS4d76B/g== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:440b:: with SMTP id y11mr77775749eda.25.1638210510386; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:28:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPV6:2001:b07:6468:f312:5e2c:eb9a:a8b6:fd3e? ([2001:b07:6468:f312:5e2c:eb9a:a8b6:fd3e]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id e7sm10108660edk.3.2021.11.29.10.28.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:28:29 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <39b21ede-5d53-0545-631e-165df9ecb7f5@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:28:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 46/59] KVM: VMX: Move register caching logic to common code Content-Language: en-US To: Sean Christopherson Cc: Thomas Gleixner , isaku.yamahata@intel.com, Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H . Peter Anvin" , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Wanpeng Li , Jim Mattson , Joerg Roedel , erdemaktas@google.com, Connor Kuehl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, isaku.yamahata@gmail.com, Sean Christopherson References: <2f3c1207f66f44fdd2f3eb0809d552f5632e4b41.1637799475.git.isaku.yamahata@intel.com> <87mtlshu66.ffs@tglx> <620e127f-59d3-ccad-e0f6-39ca9ee7098e@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org On 11/29/21 19:23, Sean Christopherson wrote: >>>> Only one generation of CPU, Nehalem, supports EPT but not >>>> unrestricted guest, and disabling unrestricted guest without also >>>> disabling EPT is, to put it bluntly, dumb. >>> This one is only significantly better and lacks an explanation what this >>> means for the dumb case. >> Well, it means a retpoline (see paragraph before). > > No, the point being made is that, on a CPU that supports Unrestricted Guest (UG), > disabling UG without disabling EPT is really, really stupid. Yes, I understand that. Thomas was asking what it means to "Move register caching logic to common code", i.e. what the consequences are. The missing words at the end of the first paragraph didn't make the connection obvious between the extra retpoline and the "dumb case". Paolo